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Monday, November 21, 1953
Protestants Ready New Approach For Converting Asians, Africans
Washington (U.R) Ameri
can Protestants are quietly Dre
paring for a revolutionary new
approach to their century-old,
yet barely-begun task of con
verting Asia and Africa to Chris
tianity.
They are facing up to the fact
that the rising tide of national
ism and anti-Western sentiment
in many countries has reached a
point where the Christian gos-
verting Asia and Africa to Chris-1 point where the Christian i
Science Makes Study
Fni- Imnmvina Voire
By DELOS SMITH gibility, and nose-talkin
United Press Science Editor
New York (U.R) Scientific
tests have put people who talk
through their noses and people
who can't talk through their
noses in the same boat. They're
both very hard to understand
and ought to be barred from
taking part in important voice
communications.
Three scientists of Ohio State
university had been hired by
the Air Force to do the experi
menting. The Air Force natural
ly is interested in giving its ra
dio voice communications the
greatest possible clarity.
The normal voice produces
speech by using "a series of cou
pled resonators" namely the
cavities of the mouth, the nose,
the larynx and the pharynx,
said Henry M. Moser, John J.
Dreher, and Sol Adler. Not on
can be short-circuited out of the
coupling without muddying
speeclj.
Heavy Head Cold
They were particularly em
phatic about the person who
can't use his nasal cavity as one
of his resonators for his words
because he has a heavy cold.
Nose-talking is all right and
even required by some lan
guages other than English, par
ticularly French. It seems to
thin out speech, they said, but
they weren't concerned with
that. Their concern was intelli
gibility, and nose-talking defi
nitely is "detrimental" to it.
They took six Americans who
speak either "eastern" or "gen
eral American" dialects and had
them record long lists of two
digit numbers. Some of these
speakers were nose - talkers,
some used all their resonators
in proper balance and some
had head colds.
Their recordings were rere
corded, mixed in with carefully
controlled amounts of meaning
less noise. Then 11 students at
Ohio State university who had
had some training in- distin
guishing among noise heard al
together, were clamped with
headphones and asked to tell
what the speakers were saying.
Milder Noise Levels
By and large, the nose-talker
was even less intelligible than
the speaker with the head cold,
except at the milder noise levels.
They acknowledged that sci
entists are not in agreement on
what effect "hypernasility" has
upon the intelligibility of
speech.
Nor do scientists agree on
what "hyponasility" too little
nose resonance does to intelli
gibility. The Ohio scientists
were trying to settle these dis
agreements but they emphasized
that their findings applied to
two-dieit numhers. since two-
digit numbers were all they ex
perimented with.
pel can make little headway if
it is labeled a Western export.
The new approach calls for
deemphasizing the traditional
practice of sending out mission
aries to establish outposts of the
Western white man's church. In
stead, leading U.S. Protestant
denominations are seeking ways
in which they can support and
strengthen the independent, native-led
Christian churches
which have been established in
nearly every country of Africa'
and the Far East.
The 30 denominations which
are members of the National
Council of Churches will send
representatives to a meeting at
Dayton, O., Dec. 4-7, to discuss
specific plans for adapting their
far-flung mission programs to
the new "partnership" concept.
Here are some of the facts
that will be considered at this
meeting:
American churches have been
sending large numbers of White
missionaries to foreign lands for
more than a century. While pre
cise statistics are lacking, it is
estimated that U.S. Protestants
give about $100,000,000 a year
to maintain upwards of 18,000
missionaries abroad.
This effort has borne fruit in
the form of small but dedicated
colonies of native Christians in
nearly every country. But Chris
tianity still has only a foothold
in Asia and Africa. In most
Asian countries, Christians con
stitute only from one half of one
per cent to three per cent of the
total population.
There is a bright spot in the
picture, however, and American
churchmen are now focusing
their attention to it. The native
churches, although small nu
merically and woefully lacking
in resources, are showing re
markable zeal in spreading the
faith.
Some of them already have
sent out missionaries to other
Asian and , African countries
Even from Communist China
where Christianity faces a ruth-
direct financial support. Other
less attempt at suppression
have come reports of new
churches being built, new native
bishops being consecrated, and
other heroic efforts by Chinese
Christians to "keep the spark
alive."
The obvious way in which
American Christians can help
these native churches is through
ways including helping to train
native clergymen and mission
ary doctors, and providing tech
nical experts in such fields as
church administration and archi
tecture a sort of religious point
four program.
Americans Reading Almost as Many Books
Now as Before Coming of Television
By ROBERT ZIMMERMAN
United-Press Correspondent
New York (U.R) You can't
watch television and read a book
at the same time, as anyone who
has tried it knows, but the fact
is Americans are reading almost
Western Allies To
Protect West Berlin
Berlin (U.R) West Berlin
Mayor Otto Suhr told Berliners
in his semi-monthly radio broad
cast Sunday that the Western
Allies will protect the city from
any Communist moves.
The Socialist major forecast
Communist "pinpricks" but said
these wouldl be nothing to a city
that has gone through "so many
difficult situations in 10 years
of the cold war."
"We are thankful to the
western allied foreign ministers
that at the end of the unsuc
esssful Geneva conference they
once more announced emphati
cally and explicitly the contin
ued interest of their govern
ments in the maintenance of the
security and welfare of Berlin,"
he said.
Manila - (U.R) Seventeen
persons were killed in trafffic
accidents Sunday final day of
safety and accident prevention
week. The dead included 14 per
sons killed when two passenger
buses were wrecked as they rac
ed on a concrete bridge. Twenty
two other persons were injured,
six seriously.
as much today as they did be
fore TV moved in to entertain
them.
The TV screen hasn't made us
a nation of illiterates after all.
Not yet, at any rate. It ap
pears to have reduced the num
ber of books the average reader
gets through in a year, but it has
sent some people to the public
library who might not have gone
there before.
A New York librarian named
Helen Evelyn Peerless has com
pleted one of the most objective
surveys yet conducted on the
competition between the printed
word and television for our lei
sure time attention.
Miss Peerless, who works at
the Elmhurst book -borrowers
passing the check-out desk and
made them her guinea pigs.
The results of the survey were
cheering to Miss Peerless and li
brary officials all over the coun
try. She concluded that TV
watching and reading were
"highly compatible activities."
Less Reading
"There is no denying that tele
vision does cause a decrease in
the number of books read per
borrower," she reported. "The
statistics developed in this study
put the net decline in the neigh
borhood of 18 per cent. Still,
there has been no overall reduc
tion in the 'use of the library."
Miss Peerless admittedly did
not survey a "cross-section" of
the population. Her subjects had
A swarm of bees at a maxi
mum point has a population of
50,000.
to be in the library before she
could hand them a question
naire. This left out the great
mass of people who never set
foot in their public libraries.
Although Miss Peerless was
interested mainly in books, her
survey turned up evidence that
reading of newspapers has been
affected least of all by TV.
Where reading has suffered, it
has been in terms of books and
magazines.
The findings were based on
answers supplied by 500 library
users. The other 128 contacted
by Miss Peerless didn't own TV
sets. The 500 were asked to com
pare their pre-TV reading habits
with their present ones.
Newspapers Popular
Sixty-nine per cent said they
read newspapers as much as
ever, 14 per cent said they were
reading newspapers more and
15 per cent said they were read
ing them less. This was inter
preted as a net decline of one
per cent in newspaper reading.
The net decline in magazine
reading was pegged at 19 per
cent and in book reading at 18
per cent.
A little over half the library
patrons said they spent more
time reading than watching TV
and one-fourth spent about the
same amount of time on each.
The remainder spent more time
with the TV on than with a
book, magazine or newspaper.
Seventy per cent said they
made a habit of reading televi
sion reviews and commentaries
in their newspapers and maga
zines.
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